Women in sports have always had it hard as there will always be a ton of men who don’t take them serious and say things to them that are just downright disrespectful.
On Monday, ESPN’s Mina Kimes went viral for giving the people just a taste of what she has to deal with on the regular. Kimes reposted an email she received from someone named “Charles Brown” entitled “STOP!” It just got worse from there as the guy accuses Kimes of knowing nothing about “male sports.”
“Mina, stop embarrassing yourself and pretending to actually know anything about male sports,” Brown said in the email. “The only reason you’re at ESPN is due to affirmative action. … Viewers see you as a bad joke that they’re forced into enduring.”
Mines cracked the old “Sir this is a Wendy’s” joke and then explained why she shared the email in a follow-up tweet.
“I understand that “Don’t amplify” argument, I really do. But I get asked by women every day whether it’s normal, and I want people to see: It never ends and it has absolutely nothing to do you with,” she wrote.
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Fellow ESPN analyst Jeff Saturday was mentioned in the email, so he replied to it:
“This is absolute trash! Mina is fantastic at her job and has earned everything she has at Espn. I can also tell you that I have reached out to Mina a number of times so that she could teach me about the use of analytics in football. She makes our NFL team better.Pipe down Charlie,” Saturday wrote.
FYI, Kimes graduated summa cum laude from Yale and became an award-winning journalist long before joining ESPN.
